DynamicSpirit
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As discussed on this thread, one of the proposals the DfT have shortlisted for further consideration as part of the Restoring your Railways fund is restoring passenger traffic on the Barrow Hill line.
Rail Technology Magazine has published more details of this proposal here. I don't seem to be able to copy and paste any of the text from that article, but it seems to be saying that the proposal is to build some stations along the existing Barrow Hill freight line (and new stations along the Sheffield-Retford passenger line), as well as improving signalling to allow passenger trains to run, and then have a service that would go something like:
Seems an interesting idea to me, although I notice looking at the map that a lot of the proposed stations are some distance from the communities they'd purport to serve.
Rail Technology Magazine has published more details of this proposal here. I don't seem to be able to copy and paste any of the text from that article, but it seems to be saying that the proposal is to build some stations along the existing Barrow Hill freight line (and new stations along the Sheffield-Retford passenger line), as well as improving signalling to allow passenger trains to run, and then have a service that would go something like:
- Chesterfield
- Whittington
- Barrow Hill
- Renishaw/Eckington
- Beighton
- Woodhouse
- Waverley
- Darnall
- Nunnery Square (change to the tram for City centre)
- Sheffield Victoria (not the existing Sheffield station because of likely capacity issues, and in the hope of regenerating the area around Victoria).
Seems an interesting idea to me, although I notice looking at the map that a lot of the proposed stations are some distance from the communities they'd purport to serve.
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